Students are dying in Sanaa, Yemen's capital.
There are some who will defend the vilest, most oppressive states, out of the depths of their insurmountable fear. The conservatives supporting Ali Abdullah Saleh fire bullets at protestors now. 2 students are dead, 20 injured.
Today:
Al Jazeera:
On Monday, witnesses said a teenager was killed and four people wounded in a clash with soldiers in the country's southern city of Aden.
Officers stood by as demonstrators marched in the eastern town of al-Shiher, chanting "Down, down with Saleh".
In Taiz, Yemen's second-largest city, thousands of protesters marched in the Safir Square. An activist, Ahmed Ghilan, said hundreds have been camping in the square for more than a week, renaming it "Freedom Square".
In Aden, schools closed, most government employees were not working and many shops were closed as hundreds gathered for another round of protests.
But mounting pressure has so far yielded little result as Saleh insists he will only step down after national elections are held in 2013.
He has said protesters demanding an end to his rule could not achieve their goal through "anarchy and killing".
http://english.aljazeera.net/...
As I said in my last diaries, the protests are still continuing after two weeks and petty promises .
1,000 students are camping in Al-Huriya (Liberty Square) near Sanaa University:
I think any chance that Yemen can go back to being the same is gone now. In 2009, Iranians began to think of each other as Iranians. This year, Egyptians thought of each other as being Egyptian--held back by Mubarak's propaganda.
That some Yemenis are still allied to the government may spell support for Saleh, but the students are being radicalized. Protest has spread from Sanaa, Taiz and Aden to other towns now.
It is getting very ugly.